PhD course in the Stockholm Doctoral Program.

SU’s official course page. The unofficial, but—in case of doubt—relevant course page is the one you are looking at. Syllabus. Schedule: Classes held on Tuesday and Thursday from 9–11 a.m. in these rooms. No class on February 11. Approximately one topic per meeting. Problem sets: distributed and discussed by the TA, Daria Finocchiaro. Course requirements: To pass the exam (which builds on the material covered in class) (90% of grade), and to hand in all (except at most one) problem sets in time (10% of grade).

Some links: Jordi Gali’s “New Perspectives …” paper as mentioned in the syllabus, in PDF. For those interested in methods to solve various optimal savings problems: Christopher Carroll’s website with notes and Mathematica code. For those interested in recursive methods: Thomas Sargent’s website with Matlab code. Paul Krugman’s opinions on macroeconomic policy issues, as published in the New York Times.

PhD course in the Stockholm Doctoral Program.

SU’s official course page. The unofficial, but—in case of doubt—relevant course page is the one you are looking at. Syllabus (January 14, 2002). Schedule: Classes held on Tuesday and Thursday from 9–11 a.m. in these rooms. Approximately one topic per meeting. Problem sets: Link to Thomas Eisensee’s page. Course requirements: To pass the exam (which builds on the material covered in class), and to hand in all (except at most one) problem sets in time. Exam: Date: March 18. Last year’s exam (note that in this year’s course we covered only half of the material tested in the old exam). The exam is graded. Sketchy solutions are available outside my office.

Some links: Jordi Gali’s “New Perspectives …” paper as mentioned in the syllabus, in PDF. For those interested in methods to solve various optimal savings problems: Christopher Carroll’s website with notes and Mathematica code. For those interested in recursive methods: Thomas Sargent’s website with Matlab code. Paul Krugman’s opinions on macroeconomic policy issues, as published in the New York Times.

PhD course in the Stockholm Doctoral Program, joint with Fabrizio Zilibotti.

SU’s official course page. The unofficial, but—in case of doubt—relevant course pages are: Fabrizio Zilibotti’s page for his part of the course and this page for my part of the course. Syllabus. Schedule: Approximately one topic (of the seven that I teach) per meeting. Excellent problem sets are posted on Gino Gancia’s page. Pay-as-you-go in OLG: correction. Exam: Make sure that you understand and are able to apply the concepts that we covered in class. My objective is to ask questions that require some thinking but no high tech at all.

PhD course in the Stockholm Doctoral Program, joint with Kjetil Storesletten.

SU’s official course page. Revised syllabus. Kjetil teaches parts 3 and 4; Dirk teaches parts 1 and 5; both teach part 2. Revised schedule (cf. Kjetil’s email): see the university’s official course page.

PhD exercise sessions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Teaching assistant for Alberto Alesina (Advanced Macroeconomics, Fall 1998), Paul Krugman (Macroeconomic Theory I, Spring 1999), Jaume Ventura (Macroeconomic Theory II, Spring 1999), Daron Acemoglu and Ricardo Caballero (Advanced Macroeconomics, Fall 1999), Olivier Blanchard (Macroeconomic Theory I, Spring 2000), and Philippe Weil (Macroeconomic Theory II, Spring 2000).